I cannot wait to play here. Just looking at the pics, I could be very content playing this course forever. The amount of architectural creativity here is incredible! Pics courtesy of Brad from Golfwrx.com
Sean (and others):
Hoping not to step on toes, but here's a brief rundown of Rich's pictures, in order, from top-to-bottom....
-- The long (230+) par 3 10th, Ron Forse's favorite par 3 here, slightly uphill, and a great visually deceptive hole -- that right bunker/mound looks like it's fronting the green, but there is a good 30 yards of fairway beyond it and green. I believe this is the largest green on the course, with a significant back-to-front slope.
-- The approach, from pretty far away, on the 1st, a dogleg right par 4. The tee shot looks ordinary, then you turn the corner and see this.
-- Unsure, on the front nine, maybe an odd angle shot of the 1st?
-- The approach shot on the par 4 3rd, a dogleg right hole. One of my favorite looks on the course, a mid/short-iron framed by a simple Wisconsin farmhouse.
-- Tee shot on #1, I believe.
-- Same shot as unsure, above.
-- The uphill, blind tee shot over gull-wing bunkers on the dogleg par 4 2nd; the fairway moves right.
-- The long approach shot into the short par 5 5th.
-- The tee shot on the downhill par 4 6th.
-- The approach shot on #6; this is a terrific photo, as it shows just how pushed up this green is. The fairway falls away sharply from the front of the green, something that's hard to pick up until the greensite rejects anything less than a well-struck shot.
-- The famed boxcar par 3 7th; I've argued in previous threads that this could be Langford's homage to a classic Short.
-- Tee shot on the short par 4 8th, maybe my favorite hole on the course. A great work of visual deception. Guess which direction is the proper aim for a tee shot (hint: it's not at the green, which can been seen just to the left of the dark trees overhanging on the right).
-- A well-placed tee shot on the 8th ends up here; one of the smallest greens on the course.
-- The cape-like tee shot on the long, uphill par 5 9th.
-- The approach shot on the 9th. The second shot for the bold player going at the green is likely blind; the two tall trees that form a sort-of goalpost is the aiming point, because in between them is the green.
-- The tee shot on the par 5 #11; the ravine before the fairway begins is quite deep.
-- Approach shot on #11.
-- #11 green.
-- Par 3 12th; not shown, but has one of the great greens on the course, with a huge internal swale.
-- Tee shot on the par 5 13th; the play is a draw over the mounds left of the fairway.
-- The long approach into 13; the ravine is quite deep (this hole parallels 11).
-- The short approach into 13; the pics don't do justice to the depth of the ravine.
-- Par 3 14th, the shortest and easiest of the par 3s here. A much different look than the rest of the course.
-- Par 4 15th; downhill tee shot to a fairway that climbs all the way to the green. The worst tree on the course, IMO, is the one fronting the fairway bunker here.
-- 15 green; note the uphill nature of the hole.
-- 16 tee shot (sort of; this is from in front of the tee box); somewhat blind between the mounds.
-- Approach into 16.
-- 17 tee shot; the photo flattens the height of the bunkers and mounds that stare at you from the tee.
-- 18 tee shot, a shortish par 5 finisher.
-- Approach to 18, from left rough, I believe. 18's green is one severely pushed-up green.